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Title: Product Owner Open

Percentage: 100%

Duration: 00:06:44

Date started: Thu 28 Jan 2021 17:00

Date finished: Thu 28 Jan 2021 17:07

Feedback
Congratulations! Your score on the Product Owner Open assessment demonstrates you know some Product
Owner basics.

Scrum on,
Ken Schwaber

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All Questions 15 Correct 0 Incorrect

Question 1 of 15

How important is it for a Product Owner to order Product Backlog items by using value points?

(choose the best answer)

Correct answer: C)
You chose: C)
Note: This question displayed answers in random order during the test.

A) Calculating value points is a predictive approach that conflicts with the empiricism of Scrum,
and is therefore not acceptable.

B) Using value points is the ultimate way for a Product Owner to predict the value that the
product will provide.

C) The Product Owner may order the Product Backlog by using value points or select another
technique, the decision is up to them.

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Feedback
The Product Owner is accountable for ordering the Product backlog, regardless of the techniques they may
utilize to define that order. Indications of value on Product Backlog items may be useful but are only a
prediction until validated by users and the market.

Question 2 of 15

Is the Product Owner required to be present at the Sprint Retrospective?

(choose the best answer)

Correct answer: A)
You chose: A)
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A) Their attendance is mandatory. The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum
Team to assess and improve itself.

B) They are optional. Attendance is only required when the Product Owner gets invited by the
Scrum Master.

C) They are not allowed. The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Developers to
improve.

Feedback
The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for
improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.

Question 3 of 15

What are typical activities for a Product Owner in a Sprint?

(choose the best two answers)

Correct answer: B) D)
You chose: B) D)
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A) Create financial reporting upon the spent hours reported by the Scrum Team.
B) Collaborate with stakeholders, user communities, and subject matter experts.
C) Update the work plan for the Developers on a daily basis.
D) Work with the Developers on Product Backlog refinement.
E) Attend every Daily Scrum to answer functional questions on the discussed Sprint Backlog
items.

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Feedback
The Product Owner represents the needs of many stakeholders in the Product Backlog. This typically
requires active interaction in order to be able to represent stakeholders and their needs. Product Backlog
refinement is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Developers may collaborate on the
details of Product Backlog items.

Question 4 of 15

How does an organization know that a product built using Scrum is successful?

(choose the best answer)

Correct answer: C)
You chose: C)
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A) By measuring that velocity has increased since the last release.

B) By the Product Owner and stakeholders accepting the Increment at the Sprint Review.

C) By releasing frequently, and measuring the value customers/users experience.

D) By measuring the actual time spent on development versus the time estimated for
development.

Feedback
Scrum Teams deliver products iteratively and incrementally, maximizing opportunities for feedback. If a
product is not released, the opportunity to capture user and market feedback is lost.

Question 5 of 15

True or False: A Product Owner is essentially the same thing as a traditional Project Manager?

Correct answer: B)
You chose: B)

A) True

B) False

Feedback
A traditional project manager is responsible for all aspects of a project; costs, resources, execution, release,
planning, capacity. Scrum is a framework for complex product development, regardless of whether the work
is organized in projects. The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product and the

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work performed, this is complemented by the specific accountabilities of the Developers and the Scrum
Master.

Question 6 of 15

What phrases best describe the relationship of the Product Owner and the Developers?

(choose the best two answers)

Correct answer: B) C)
You chose: B) C)
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A) They should work apart as much as possible in order to keep the concerns of business and
technology separated.
B) They collaborate often so the Developers build Increments keeping end-user and
stakeholder concerns in mind.
C) They collaborate often so the Product Owner can make informed decisions in balancing
effort and value of Product Backlog items.
D) They should share no more than the Sprint Planning and the Sprint Review meeting.
E) The Product Owner should be with the Developers full-time to grow a deep understanding of
the technology being used.

Feedback
The Product owner clearly expresses Product Backlog items, ensuring the Developers understand items in
the Product Backlog to the level needed for developing them and creating the value the Product Owner
envisions. Scope may be re-negotiated if the effort grows much higher than anticipated.

Question 7 of 15

What is the Product Owner accountable for in Scrum?

(choose the best answer)

Correct answer: D)
You chose: D)
Note: This question displayed answers in random order during the test.

A) Writing the User Stories so they are comprehensive enough for the stakeholders.

B) Describing an Increment at Sprint Planning and making sure that the Developers deliver it
by the end of the Sprint.

C) Refining the top level Product Backlog items until they are ready to be handed over to the
Scrum Team.

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D) Maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team.

Feedback
In addition to being accountable for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Scrum Team,
the Product Owner is accountable for effective Product Backlog management, communicating the Product
Goal, ordering the Product Backlog, and making the Product Backlog transparent. The Product Owner may
do these things or may delegate the responsibility to others. Even if the responsibility is delegated the
Product Owner remains accountable.

Question 8 of 15

Which two statements explain why the Definition of Done is important to the Product Owner?

(choose the best two answers)

Correct answer: A) B)
You chose: A) B)
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A) It creates transparency regarding progress within the Scrum Team.

B) It establishes the expected quality of the Increment reviewed at the Sprint Review.
C) It identifies undone work that can be addressed in a separate Sprint.
D) It helps the Product Owner track the open work during a Sprint.

Feedback
All Scrum Team members must have a shared understanding of what it means for work to be complete, to
ensure transparency. This is the Definition of Done for the Scrum Team and is used to assess when work is
complete on the product Increment. The Increment reviewed at the Sprint Review must meet the Definition
of Done.

Question 9 of 15

What should Developers do if the Product Owner is unavailable?

(choose the best answer)

Correct answer: D)
You chose: D)
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A) Wait until the Product Owner is available again.

B) Ask the Product Owner’s manager to decide in the Product Owner’s absence.

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C) Management should assign a substitute Product Owner to fill in when the Product Owner
cannot be there.

D) Within the Sprint, the Developers make the best decisions possible to assure progress
toward the Sprint Goal, re-aligning with the Product Owner once they are available again.

Feedback
The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and their associated roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Each
component within the framework serves a specific purpose and is essential to Scrum's success and usage.
The Scrum Team consists of a Product Owner, the Developers, and a Scrum Master. The Product Owner is
responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Scrum Team. In the absence of a
Product Owner, the latter accountability is not performed.

Question 10 of 15

A Product Owner is entitled to postpone the start of a new Sprint after the conclusion of a
previous Sprint for the following reason:

(choose the best answer)

Correct answer: A)
You chose: A)
Note: This question displayed answers in random order during the test.

A) There is no acceptable reason. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the
previous Sprint.

B) The Quality Assurance department needs more time to make the previous Increment
complete.

C) Not enough Product Backlog items are ready.

D) The Product Owner has not identified a Sprint Goal.

E) The stakeholders are not happy with the value produced in the previous Sprint.

Feedback
A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.

Question 11 of 15

In order to make investment decisions, the Product Owner is likely to look at the Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) of the product being built. What costs will a Product Owner take into account?

(choose the best answer)

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Correct answer: C)
You chose: C)
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A) The accumulated cost over the earned value of the product.

B) The money spent on development and delivery of the product.

C) All investments required to conceive, develop, operate and maintain the product.

Feedback
The Product Owner is not only accountable for development and release of a product, but also the cost of
maintaining and operating the product over its lifetime.

Question 12 of 15

What two things best help the Product Owner manage the value of a product?

(choose the best two answers)

Correct answer: C) D)
You chose: C) D)
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A) Devising a formula for a neutral calculation of value.

B) Setting value on individual Product Backlog items using Value Poker.
C) The order of the Product Backlog.
D) Validating assumptions of value through frequent releases.

Feedback
The Product Owner manages Product Backlog against the assumption that value will be generated.
Indications of value on Product Backlog are useful but are only a prediction until validated against users and
market.

Question 13 of 15

True or False: The Scrum Team must choose at least one high priority process improvement
item, identified during the Sprint Retrospective, and place it in the Sprint Backlog.

Correct answer: B)
You chose: B)

A) True

B) False

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Feedback
An earlier version of the Scrum Guide prescribed the practice of placing one improvement in the Sprint
Backlog. This was removed in the 2020 update to the Scrum Guide because it was felt to be too
prescriptive. However, if this practice provides value to you then you should adopt it. It is simply not
prescribed anymore, but can still be valuable.

Question 14 of 15

To what extent does technical debt limit the value a Product Owner can get from a product?

(choose the best two answers)

Correct answer: A) B)
You chose: A) B)
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A) Technical debt causes a greater percentage of the product's budget to be spent on

maintenance of the product.
B) The velocity at which new functionality can be created is reduced when you have technical
debt.
C) Technical debt is not a Product Owner concern, technical debt is only an issue for the
Developers.
D) Technical debt does not influence the delivery of value.

Question 15 of 15

The Product Owner's authority to change and update the Product Backlog is unlimited, except for:

(choose the best answer)

Correct answer: A)
You chose: A)
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A) There are no exceptions; the entire organization must respect a Product Owner's decisions.

B) Items the Scrum Master has identified as impediments.

C) Technical and architectural work that needs to be done first, as indicated by the chief
enterprise architect.

D) Decisions by the chief program manager.

E) Decisions by the CFO, the CEO or the board of directors.

F) High impact changes that have not been approved by the change request board.
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Feedback
For the Product Owner to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions. (WF): For the
Product Owner to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions.

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